What with the recent changes to various regulatory aspects regarding the lives of American citizens I was expecting a bit of backlash against President Obama, but I certainly didn’t see this coming.

President Barack Obamas approval rating in New York fell precipitously in the past month, according to a poll released Monday, and three-fifths of the states registered voters now believe the country is heading in the wrong direction.

Obamas approval rating remains high in New York, at 56 percent, with 41 percent disapproving, according to the Siena College poll.

But the presidents approval rating was at 66 percent last month, with only 32 percent disapproval  so the change is a net 19 point decline.

Yes, 56% is still nothing to sneeze at, but this is a state where Obama won 63.33% of the vote to Mitt Romney’s 35.19% in 2012, and that wasn’t a particularly high turnout cycle. At other times he’s been much closer to 70. What does Siena attribute it to? New Yorkers feel that the country is on the wrong track by a margin of 60 to 32. But I suspect there’s something more to the story. At the same time, Andrew Cuomo has dipped to 64% when he was at 67-29 last month and in the seventies last year. What’s the connection?

My guess is that the liberal wing has overplayed its hand in the Empire state, sending even borderline supporters upstate heading for the exits. Even in a decidedly liberal state, Cuomo has been on the Obama bandwagon, but putting it on steroids. Cuomo signed a gun control bill which is becoming increasingly unpopular as people find out more about it. He also passed an abortion bill which even had nominally pro-choice voters asking what the heck was going on. (The procedure can be performed by people who aren’t doctors???)

This is a formula for opportunity for the GOP if they play their cards right. No, I don’t expect New York to suddenly turn red in 2016, but there will be a lot of congressional districts – as well as state Senate and assembly seats – where the worm may turn back a bit. When you grab for too much at one time you lose the middle, and that’s what I think is happening here right now.

Agreed. They will vote for him again, no matter what.
I suspect they would vote for Obama again even if NYC gets hit with a terrorist dirty bomb during the ill-conceived trial of Bin Laden’s son-in-law.

States like NY and CA permanently conquered territory. They will vote for any democrat over any non-democrat, unless the non-democrat is further left. Those states’ electoral votes are forevermore off-limits to GOPers.

The jug-eared jerk will sits in the office of our President for four more years. What does he care where his approval numbers are. He is unconstitutionally assuming and using powers he is not supposed to have to destroy our Country and turn us into another Somalia and the Pubbies in Congress are not American enough to impeach him. Even though the Senate will never convict the House needs to impeach the SOB.

There you go. From the above posts and some of those
below we see that most of us know Obama voters inside
and out. Had Obama dropped TO 10% instead of a 10%
drop a lot of us would still give him an 85% chance
of winning an election. His voters are the Walking
Deadocrats and we’re not allowed to whack ‘em
in the head w/Louisville Sluggers.....not yet.

States like NY and CA permanently conquered territory. They will vote for any democrat over any non-democrat, unless the non-democrat is further left. Those states electoral votes are forevermore off-limits to GOPers.

Allowing non-doctors to perform abortions is becoming a very high priority for liberals. Abortion providers are part of a graying profession. Fewer and fewer new doctors every year are willing to abort babies. The libs are terrified that one day they’ll wake up to find that abortions are legal, but impossible to actually get....

This is what we have to deal with when we have one city that has the population of the rest of the state. There have been reports of NYC leaving the state. One can only hope. Hope they take Albany with it. LOL

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